Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-10

BROOKLYN, Jan. 9.-The opening hymn
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning
begins:
30, could speak the matchess wcrth
o, could sound the glores forth
Which in my Saviour shinen
DR.. Talmage explained some OF the
prophesies before giving out the hymn
and then preached on the subject "Dis-
tribution of rewards" taking his text
from Isaiah liii., II: "He snail divide the
spoil with the strong" DR.. Talmage
spoke as follows:
My family, who saw it with their own
eyes year before last, tell me that in the
Coliseum at Rome, where prosecutors
used to let out the half-starVed lions to
eat up Christians, there is now planted
the figure OF a cross, and | rejoice to
know that the upright piece OF wood
nailed to a traneverse piece has become
the symbol, not more of suffering than Of
victory. 1t is of Christ the conqueror
that my text speaks. AS a kingly war
riOr, having subdued an empire, might
divide the palaces, and mansions, and
cities, and valleys, and mountains among
his officers, so Christ is going to divide
up all the earth, and all the heavens,
among His people, and you and L Will
have to take our share If we are strong In
faith, aud strong in our Christian 10y
atty, for my text declares it: "He shall
divide the spoil with the strong"
The capture of this round planet for
Christ is not so much of job as you
might imagine, when the Church takes
off it's coat and rolls up it's sleeves for the
work, as it will. There are sixteen num-
dred millions of people now in the world,
and there are four hundred and fifty mil
lions Christians. Subtract the tour
hundred and fifty millions who are
Christians from the sixteen hundred NIL
lions, and there are eleven hundred and
fifty millions left to be ChristlaniZed.
Now divide the eleven hundred ana fifty
millions by the four hundred and fifty
millions already ChrisJianIzed, and it
makes less than three people for eacn
Christian to bring to Christ. Surely
when the Churcn gets wide awake no
Christian will be content to take to
heaven less than three. Why, l hope to
take with me at least ten Thousand. l
know eVangelis,s that have already gath
cred fifty thousand each tor the kingdom.
There are al least two hundred thousand
men in Christendom whose one business
| 1t Is to save souls. So that when | tell
| you all that we need to average is three
of impossibiliIy vanishes from this ON
| nipotent crusade. | know of a Sabbath
scnoOl teacher who has spent her lifetime
in teaching the young, and she had five
| different classes during all these years,
| and she tells me they averaged about
seven in a class, and they were all con-
Verted, and five times seven are thirty
| i've, as near as 1 can calculate. She
| brought her three and had thirty-two TO
spare. My grandmother brought her
whole family into the kingdom, and her
Grandchildren, and, hope, all her great
| grandchildren, for God remembers a
prayer seventy-fve years old as well as
| though it were minute old; and
| she took her three into the
kingdom, and had at least a hundred to
| spare. Besides that, the telegraph aud
| telephone will, within a few years, put
| the whole earth into compass OF ten MIL
utes. Consider this and also that OmnIp-
Otence and OmnIscience and Omnipres-
| ence preside over all the work Of better
ment, and you take this enterprise of the
worlds redemption out OF the impossible.
ties into the possibilities, and then out
| Of the possibilities into the probabilities,
| and then out OF the probabilities into the
certainties. The building OF the Union
Pacific railroad from ocean to ocean was
| a greater undertaking than the girdling
of the earth with the Gospel, for the one
enterprise depended upon the human
| arm. while the otner depends upon Al
mightiness.
30 really mean all the earth will sur
| re nder TO Christ? Yes. How about the
| evangellzed? The possibility is that after
a few more hundred brave lives are dashed
| out among the iceber g, that great re-
| lrIgerator, the Polar region, will be given
up TO the warus and the bear, aud that
| the inhabitants will come down by invl'
tation into tolerable climates, or those
| climates may soften, and, as it mas been
| positively demonstrated that the Arctic
| re9iOn was once blooming garden aud
fruitful field, those regions may change
| climate and again be a blooming garden
and "A fruitful field. 1t is proved beyond con-
troversy by German and American scien.
LGsts, that the Arctic regions were tue
| first portions of this world InhabItab!e ;
| the " orld hot beyond human endurance.
| those regions were of course the first to
| be cool enough for human foot and hu.
man lung. 1t is positively proved that
that Arctic region was tropical climate,
| Prof. Heer, Of Zurich, says the re.
mains OF flowers have been found
in the Arctic, showing it was like Mexico
| for climate, and IL was found that the
Arctic was the mother region from which
all the flowers descended. Prot. Wallace
says the remains of ali styles OF animal
| life are found in the Arctic, including
those animals that can live only in warm
| climates. Now, that Arctic region which
| has been demonstrated by fora, and
| fauna, and geological argument TO have
| been as full of vegetation and life as oul
| Florida, may be turned back to its orig
| in9l bloom and glory, or it will be shut up
as a museum OF crystals for curiosity
| seekers once In a while to visit. But Arc
! tic and Antarctic In some shape will be-
| long to the Redeemer's realm.
What about other unproductiVe or re-
pulsive regions? All the deserts will BE-
| irrigated. the waters will be forced up TO
the great American desert between here
and the Pacific by machinery now known
| or vet to be Invente d, aud, as Great Salt
| Lake City has no rain ana could not raise
an apple or a bushel OF wheat in hun.
| dred years without artificial help, but Is
now through such means one great gar.
| den, 80 all the unproductive parts OF all
| the continents Will be turned into har.
vest fields and orchards. A half dozen
DsLesseps Will furnish the world with all
the canals needed, and will change the
course Of rivers and open new lakes, and
| great Sahara desert will be cut up into
| farms nth an astounding yield OF bushels
| to the acre. The marsh will be drained
OF It's waters and cured Of its malaria.
saw the other day what was Tor many
years called the Black swamp OF Ohio
its chief crop chills and fevers, but now